Read the excerpt from my story. she took me up a flight of stairs (the cells were on the second level), through a door covered with iron mesh, and along a dimly lighted corridor. she placed me in an empty dark cell and slammed the door closed. she walked a few steps away, but then she turned around and came back. she said, "there are two girls around the other side, and if you want to go over there with them instead of being in a cell by yourself, i will take you over there.” i told her that it didn’t matter, but she said, "let’s go around there, and then you won’t have to be in a cell alone.” it was her way of being nice. it didn’t make me feel any better. how does rosa parks the reader understand her emotions in this excerpt? a) by describing in detail the order of what happened to her b) by comparing her feelings to those of other prisoners she met c) by sharing the exact dimensions of the prison cell she was put in d) by explaining how her feelings were expressed as pain in her body

What does the word subordinate mean in this sentence? the office manager spoke to her subordinate in a cordial tone.

Read the excerpt from elie wiesel’s all rivers run to the sea. why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into poland? why were the tracks leading to birkenau never bombed? i have put these questions to american presidents and generals and to high-ranking soviet officers. since moscow and washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? that not a single allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. birkenau was “processing” ten thousand jews a day. stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives. based on the paragraph, the author would most likely agree that it is best to avoid confrontation at all costs. people need to be proactive when they witness an injustice. countries should remain neutral to keep alliances strong. moscow and washington are to be blamed for the holocaust.

What is the first step in summarizing a plot? restating central ideas and key details eliminating minor or unimportant details connecting ideas with logical transitions identifying important words and phrase